Swann Galleries: BOOKS FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE, MILDRED BARNES BLISS, bequeathed to Harvard University. Public Auction Sale Number 942, February 14, 1974 at 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m., EXHIBITION FROM FEBRUARY ELEVENTH TO TIME OF SALE. EXHIBITION AND SALE AT, SWANN GALLER, 942,

Auction Details

Auction Date
February 14, 1974 - February 14, 1974
Page Size: 551 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
301 LOWELL, AMY John Keats Boston

1925

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
302 LOWELL, GUY Smaller Italian Villas & Farmhouses New York

1916

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
303 McCORMICK, HARRIET HAMMOND Landscape Art, Past and Present New York

1923

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
304 MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD J. B.: a Play in Verse Boston

1958

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
305 MACQUOID, PERCY A History of English Furniture London

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
306 MACQUOID, PERCY; & EDWARDS, RALPH The Dictionary of English Furniture, from the Middle Ages to the Late Georgian Period London

USD 150.00 - 250.00 Unknown
307 MANET, EDOUARD Letters with Aquarelles New York

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
308 Garrison, Wendell P. MARION PRESS. The New Gulliver Jamaica, N. Y.

1898

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
309 MARITAIN, JACQUES France My Country... New York

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
310 MARSHALL, GEORGE C. Biennial Report of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 1941-43 Washington

1943

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
311 Baer, Elizabeth MARYLAND. Seventeenth Century Maryland: a Bibliography Baltimore

1949

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
312 MASSENET, JULES Mes Souvenirs (1848-1912) Paris

1912

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
313 MASSON, GEORGINA. Italian Gardens...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
314 MAUGHAM, W. SOMERSET Of Human Bondage... (Washington)

1946

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
315 MAUROIS, ANDRE A la Recherche de Marcel Proust (Paris)

1949

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
316 Hillary, William MEDICAL. Observations on the Changes of the Air, and the Concomitant Epidemical Diseases in the Island of Barbadoes Philadelphia

1811

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
317 Letulle, Maurice MEDICAL. La Tuberculose Pleuro-Pulmonaire Paris

1916

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
318 MELLON, MR. & MRS. PAUL Painting in England, 1700-1850 Richmond

1963

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
319 Lewis Einstein, editor MERRYMOUNT PRESS. The Humanists' Library Boston

USD 35.00 - 45.00 Unknown
320 MEYER, AGNES E. Chinese Paintings as Reflected in the Thought and Art of Li Lung-Mien, 1070-1106 New York

1923

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
321 Joan Evans, editor MIDDLE AGES. The Flowering of the Middle Ages New York

1966

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
322 (MIRABEAU, COMTE DE) Histoire Secrete de la Cour de Berlin, ou Correspondance d'un Voyageur Francois, Juillet 1786 jusqu'a 19 Janvier 1787

1789

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
323 MIRANDA, FRANCISCO DE Fragments from an XVIIIth Century Diary: Travels and Adventures in Spain, Africa, North America, etc., 1771-89 Caracas

1931

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
324 Gentry, North Todd MISSOURI. The Bench and Bar of Boone County, Missouri Columbia

1916

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
325 MODERN ART. Gabo...

USD 35.00 - 45.00 Unknown
326 MODERN ART. Rubin. Dada, Surrealism, and their Heritage...

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
327 (MOLIERE) Bibliotheque Nationale. Catalogue des Ouvrages de Moliere Paris

1933

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
328 MOORE, MARIANNE Eight Poems New York

1962

USD 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
329 (MORIER, JAMES J.) The Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan London

1824

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
330 MOSHER PRESS. Group of 18 publications Portland

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
331 MUCHA, ALPHONSE: et son Oeuvre-Portrait by Whidhopff Paris

1897

USD 75.00 - 125.00 Unknown
332 MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. Group of 6 publications--Max Beckmann... New York

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
333 MUSIC. Anton Seidl: a Memorial by his Friends New York

1899

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
334 MUSIC. Landowska. Musique Ancienne... Paris

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
335 MUSIC. Aldrich. Musical Discourse...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
336 MUSIC. Eames. Some Memories and Reflections...

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
337 MUSIC. Gilman. Edward MacDowell...

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
338 MUSIC. Reis. Composers in America... New York, etc.

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
339 NASH, THOMAS The Choise of Valentines, or the Merie Ballad of Nash his Dildo London

1899

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
340 NATHAN, ROBERT The Concert New York

1940

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
341 NEGRO-Dawson, Warrington Le Negre aux Etats-Unis. Preface de Paul Adam Paris

1912

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
342 NEWCOMB, REXFORD The Franciscan Mission Architecture of Alta Califomia New York

1916

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
343 Villiers, Baron Marc de NEW ORLEANS. Histoire de la Fondation de la Nouvelle-Orleans (1717-1722) Paris

1917

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
344 NIXON, RICHARD M-Six Crises Garden City

1962

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
345 NOBEL, ALFRED; och hans Slakt Minnesskrift utgiven av Nobelstiftdsens Styrelse Stockholm

1926

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
346 Vignaud, Henry NORSE DISCOVERY. Les Expeditions des Scandinaves en Amerique, devant la Critique: un Nouveau Faux Document (Paris)

1910

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
347 NOYES, ALFRED The Avenue of the Allies New York

1918

USD 75.00 - 125.00 Unknown
348 NOYES, ALFRED If Judgment Comes...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
349 NUTTING, WALLACE Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720, induding Colonial Utensils and Hardware Boston

1921

USD 30.00 - 50.00 Unknown
350 NUTTING, WALLACE Furniture Treasury (Mostly of American Origin) Framingham

1928

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
351 ODOM, WILLIAM M. A History of Italian Furniture, from the 14th to the Early 19th Centuries-Over 850 photographic illustrations Garden City

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
352 OLYMPIC GAMES, 1912. V. Olympiaden: Olympiska Spelen i Stockholm 1912 i Bild och Ord Stockholm

1912

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
353 OMAR KHAYYAM One Hundred Quatrains from the Rubaiyat: a Rendering in English Verse by Elizabeth A. Curtis Gouverneur, N. Y.

1899

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
354 ORIENT. Curzon. Problems of the Far East...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
355 ORIENT. Maraini. Secret Tibet...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
356 ORIENTAL ART. Welch. The Art of Mughal India...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
357 OSLER, SIR WILLIAM An Alabama Student, and other Biographical Essays New York & London

1908

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
358 Harvey Cushing OSLER, SIR WILLIAM: Life Oxford

1925

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
359 J. Arthur Thomson, editor OUTLINE OF SCIENCE: a Plain Story Simply Told New York

1922

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
360 (PADEREWSKI). Opienski. Paderewski: Esquisse de sa Vie et Oeuvre...

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
361 PAGE, THOMAS NELSON Santa Claus's Partner New York

1899

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
362 Bunau-varilla, Philippe PANAMA CANAL. How to Build the Panama Canal? The High Level Lock Canal--The Straits of Panama (Washington)

1905

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
363 PAPAL BINDINGS. Two volumes, as below

USD 60.00 - 90.00 Unknown
364 PASSE-TEMS AGREABLE, ou Nouveau Choix de Bons-Mots . . . tant en Prose qu'en Vers Amsterdam & Leipzig

1743

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
365 PATER, WALTER Marius the Epicurean Portland

1900

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
366 PERKINS, CHARLES E. The Phantom Bull Boston

1932

USD 80.00 - 120.00 Unknown
367 PERRIN DU LAC, F. M. Voyage dans les Deux Louisianes, et chez les Nations Sauvages du Missouri, par les Etats-Unis, l'Ohio et les Provinces qui le bordent, en 1801, 1802 et 1803 Paris et Lyon

1805

USD 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
368 PERSE, ST.-J. Anabasis, a Poem London

1930

USD 60.00 - 90.00 Unknown
369 PERSE, ST.JOHN Winds Bollingen Series

1953

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
370 PERSE, SAINT-JOHN Oeuvre Poetique (Paris)

1953

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
371 PERSE, SAINT-JOHN Amers (Paris)

1957

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
372 PERSE, SAINT-JOHN Oiseaux Paris

1962

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
373 PERSE, ST.-JOHN Seamarks... Bollingen Series

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
374 PERSE, ST. JOHN Eloges and Other Poems...

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
375 (PERSE) Les Cahiers de la Pleiade (Paris)

1950

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
376 PERSHING, JOHN J. Final Report of . . . Commander-in-Chief American Expeditionary Forces Washington

1919

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
377 PERSHING, JOHN J. My Experiences in the World War New York

1931

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
378 PESNE, ANTOINE: mit Betragen von Berckenhagen, du Colombier, Kuhn, Poensgen. Eingeleitet von Georg Poensgen Berlin

1958

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
379 PETIT DE JULLEVILLE, L., Editor Histoire de la Langue et de la Litterature Francaise, des Origines a 1900 Paris

USD 70.00 - 100.00 Unknown
380 PHILLIPPS, E. MARCH The Gardens of Italy London

1919

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
381 PHILLIPS, EDWARD Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum, containing Brief Characters of the English Poets, down to 1675 Geneva

1824

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
382 (PICHON, BARON JEROME) Vie de Charles-Henry Comte de Hoym . . . Celebre Amateur de Livres, 1694-1736 Paris

1880

USD 50.00 - 75.00 Unknown
383 POE, EDGAR ALLAN POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Letters Cambridge

1948

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
384 John W. Robertson, M.D. POE, EDGAR A.: a Study San Francisco

1921

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
385 POETES FRANQOIS, LES, Depuis le Xlle Siecle jusqu'a Malherbe, avec une Notice Historique et Litteraire sur chaque Poete Paris

1824

USD 60.00 - 80.00 Unknown
386 POETRY. Daly. One Season Shattered...

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
387 POETRY. Masefield. Lollingdon Downs...

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
388 POISONING TRIAL. Affaire Castaing: Accusation d'Empotsonnement

1823

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
389 POPE HENNESSY, UNA. Charles Dickens... London

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
390 PORTA, JOHN BAPTISTA Natural Magick, in Twenty Books New York

1957

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
391 PORTER, ELIOT "Tn Wildness is the Preservation of the World"...

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
392 POULET-MALASSIS, AUGUSTE Bibliographie Descriptive et Anecdotique des Ouvrages ecrits ou publies par lui Paris

1883

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
393 (POUND, EZRA) The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti Boston

1912

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
394 Karel Plicka PRAGUE IN PICTURES Praha

1956

USD 20.00 - 30.00 Unknown
395 PREVOST, ABBE Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux Paris

1840

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
396 PROUST, MARCEL Lettres a Madame Scheikevitch

1928

USD 35.00 - 50.00 Unknown
397 PROUST, MARCEL 47 Lettres Inedites a Walter Berry Paris

1930

USD 40.00 - 60.00 Unknown
398 PROVENCAL. Lis Amouro de Ribas, culido per la Felibresso dou Cauloun Avignoun

1863

USD 25.00 - 35.00 Unknown
399 PROVERBS. Explication des Proverbes de Salomon Latin-Francois Bruxelles

1698

USD 35.00 - 45.00 Unknown
400 PUFENDORFF, BARON DE Histoire de Suede, avant et depuis la Fondation de la Monarchie Amsterdam

1732

USD 30.00 - 40.00 Unknown
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